Host: Nadja Rüger (BioEcon & iDiv member)

Caroline E Farrior, Associate Professor at the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (USA)

Title: "Forest dynamics and species coexistence: The importance of small-scale disturbances and competition for light in forest structure and diversity." 

Host: Marcus Lehnert (MLU & iDiv member)

Michael Kessler, Research group leader at the Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich (Switzerland)

Titel: "Fern diversity across space and time: from global patterns to stomata"

Host: Anja Widdig (UL, MPI EVA & iDiv member)

Stefanie Heinicke, Postdoctoral Researcher at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam (Germany)

Title: "Climate change impact modelling and the need to include biodiversity – introduction to the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP)"